Sustainable Water Resources and Stormwater Management

Dear Colleagues,

Water resource management is currently facing several challenges, including climate change, increasing urbanization, land use changes, growing environmental demands, and, at the same time, the predatory exploitation of water resources is ongoing in many parts of the world.

The main objective of water management is to ensure an adequate quantity and quality of water resources over time and space to meet the needs of current and future generations rationally and sustainably. With the changing climate, water management may become increasingly challenging. Changes are radically affecting the functionality of aquatic environments and their biotic components. Although the Earth’s climate has already altered many times in the past, the current changes are unique, as their causes are not only rooted in natural cycles but in human activities. This development has resulted in increased emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, and consequently, there has been an increase in global average air temperature. Precipitation is also being affected–it is less frequent but more intensive–which, combined with the increase in land imperviousness due to urbanization, leads to rapid surface runoff, a shorter time of concentration, and consequently, flood risk. On the other hand, because of climate change, rain-free periods are becoming longer, which, with the coexistence of high air temperatures, results in an increased risk of drought. Unfortunately, increasing urbanization and climate change are causing several alterations to the natural hydrological cycle. Despite the high adaptive capacity that natural ecosystems possess, the rate of transformation coupled with strong anthropopressure is exceeding their resilience.

This Special Issue welcomes papers focusing on the latest knowledge related to water management. We welcome papers from a wide range of studies on surface and groundwater quality, quantity, monitoring, protection, and modeling. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Water resource management in response to climate change;
• Planning, designing, operation, and the optimization of water resource systems;
• Water as the common thread connecting all sustainable development goals;
• Smart water management;
• Ecosystem-based management approaches;
• Water security, sustainability, and resilience;
• A nexus approach to water resource management;
• The integration of flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies;
• Sustainable water management in the Anthropocene;
• Geopolitical and socio-economic aspects of water resource management;
• Stakeholder involvement in water management;
• Remote sensing, GIS, big data, and artificial intelligence applications for sustainable water management;
• Ecohydrology;
• Challenges, knowledge gaps, new trends, and innovations in water management.

Dr. Jolanta Dąbrowska
Dr. Jolanta Kanclerz
Guest Editors

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• water-cycling analyses
• water quantity and quality
• adaptive water management
• integrated water resources management
• water smart cities
• water smart agriculture
• sustainable water use
• SDGs
• anthropocene